Mnemonic comic for 可
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic is a short, deliberately ridiculous scene, built to be hard to forget. Who appears in it and where it takes place are how the pronunciation is stored; the objects in it stand for the parts the character is written with. That is the Marilyn Method, and the comic below is the same scene, drawn.
Alternative mnemonic symbol: kebab, from the pronunciation “ke”. Karl Marx (k) is preparing a kebab (mnemonic symbol for 可) in the elevator’s living room (e3). He also skewers mandarins (口) on the long steel nails (丁) and will only allow (可) his guests to eat the rest of the kebab if they eat their mandarins first.
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I have NO idea why the AI added a gamer girl. This was the prompt: "Create an image of a high quality modern digital art comic panel with square aspect ratio. Use cell shading and advanced drawing techniques. All referenced characters are cosplayers. Create modern cartoon versions of the mentioned characters. A guest is buying a kebap with lots of mandarins from Karl Marx. Karl Marx has a food truck in the elevator's living room. He skewers oranges on a huge nail to create a kebap with oranges. The room is made out of stainless steel and features a steel sofa and steel TV. Two large sliding elevator doors are shown in the background."
Matthias, over 1 year ago
Aaahh, okay, now I see it. Sometimes the AI doesn't want to create Pocahontas or Pinocchio or so, because there are popular copyrighted interpretations of these characters, so I have a system prompt (basically the first half of the prompt) telling ChatGPT that everyone is a "cosplayer", so it doesn't need to be afraid of copyright infringement.
Matthias, over 1 year ago
How to pronounce 可
MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.
可 character breakdown
Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.
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